How To Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

Many of you may want to blog, but you want to see how you can make blogging less time consuming. If you can get pass this, then you’re all for blogging to build your business.

But one thing you don’t want to miss out on is how much better your business can be with a consistent blog. You’ve seen all of the stats, and probably most of your friends who are solopreneurs are taking action and seeing some results while you on the other hand are sitting on the fence.

The fact that you have very limited of time doesn’t help either. You feel that can possibly squeeze in at least a half an hour a day to blog. You’re schedule isn’t like most of your peers who could put in a couple of hours a day, or even crank out an informative, engaging blog post in a day.

So what gives? You keep asking yourself how can you make blogging less time consuming and you have yet to find any answers that resonate with you. Well look no further because I will reveal with you some tips on how you can achieve blogging with less effort but yet attract results that will soar!

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“Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.” ~ John C. Maxwell

I bet you thought about how much effort it takes to put into a blog a few times after you were told how beneficial it will be to your business, right?

You see your blogging peers putting all the bells and whistles on each post that they create, and you think to yourself that it must have taken them a lot of time to do so?

But is this true?

Do you have to over-deliver each time you write and publish a blog post?

That will depend on how much you want your audience to succeed. But I tell you that if your audience can feel that you want them to succeed, then success will reciprocate back to you.

Now you’re probably thinking, “Aha, so it does take a lot of time.”

To be honest with you, it does take some time, but not to the point to where you don’t have a life.

Working smart can get you to places that you thought you couldn’t get to.

Now working hard is a different story. You don’t want to convert into the hamster in a wheel. Working hard but not getting anywhere.

But yet you do want to create enough value that will keep you progressing forward.

Quality and value directed towards your target market is key, and there are ways to make blogging less time consuming than what you may believe.

Let’s talk about a couple of misconceptions of growing a successful Blog

Misconceptions That Won’t Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

I’ve notice from chatting with a couple of people that there are some misconceptions that keep them from blogging.

Yes, these misconceptions wont make it easier for you to make blogging less time consuming when you get into a routine.

As a matter of fact, these misconceptions can be the reasons that most people quit blogging all together.

But one point that I want to make clear that although this is contrary of what I’m trying to get across and that is blogging isn’t for everyone. There’s people that just hate writing all together which I don’t recommend they start doing if it’s on that haterism level.

Then there’s people like me that grew to like blogging. Especially when they started getting better results as they improve their efforts.

So lets get into some of the misconceptions that you’ve probably heard that can keep you from making blogging less time consuming.

You Have To Publish A Blog Post Everyday To See Great Results

At one point in my blogging journey I was publishing every other day, and you know what? I was getting comments and shares, but the posts I was putting out wasn’t of quality to my audience.

Now I’m not saying that it’s to your disadvantage that publishing a blog post everyday or ever other day is bad since some people can crank out great content effortlessly. But for people like myself and a lot of others, this can hinder us from progressing, improving our results with each step.

I now put out a post once a week and I’m getting more traffic than I did when I was posting every other day. Plus I’m getting just as many comments, if not more, as well as more opt ins.

Should you blog once a week? No, but the best thing to do is to come up with a schedule that works best for you. Some bloggers blog everyday while others blog once a month. In a way, blogging itself is just the beginning when it comes to your marketing plan.

In my case, the difference is that I’m putting out content that my audience finds valuable, I’m promoting my blog post more so than I did before, and I’m engaging with more bloggers that are within my niche or in a similar one.

You Have To Come Up With Brand New Content Each Time

Everyone has their own opinion about certain topics. As a matter of fact, there’s some blog posts that I prefer reading versus others that talk about the same topic.

With that said, you don’t have to come up with brand new content, or should I say a totally brand new idea to publish on your blog each time.

In fact you can see what your other blogging peers are doing and come up with your on spill of the same topics!

You Have To Use SEO On Each Of Your Blog Posts

Although I’m all for incorporating SEO with each of your blog posts, I do know that you don’t have to use SEO each and every time you publish a blog post.

It can be time consuming to figure what keywords to use, where to place them, formatting each blog post, and so on.. but it can be beneficial for you in the long run.

Yes, I know you want to be found on search engine, but there’s also this thing called social proof. Growing a community of your own (through social media, blogging communities, word of mouth etc.) and building rapport with other bloggers should be your main focus.

When other’s see that your blog post is being shared by a high influencer or they see that there’s a lot of comments on your blog, then this gives them a budge to get on in so they won’t be left out! We all want to be with the cool kids, don’t we?

You Have To Write 3,000 Words Or More To Have A Successful Blog

I’m also an advocate of writing longer posts based from my own experience. But one thing that’s going to swallow up your time is writing those really long ones that end up being 8000+ words.

Are most of people in your audience going to read these really long blog posts. For the most, no they’re not. At least in my own experience and judging the way I pick and choose the posts I want to read.

I choose them on the basis of the limited of time I have. And unless you don’t have a full time job, or any other type of full time schedule, then you or your audience isn’t going to take too much time to read the really long ones.

So depending on your time and your audience, adjust the length of your blog posts that correlate with the average person in your audience as well as the type of person you’re writing for.

4 Ways To Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

Now that we got the misconceptions out of the way, one thing I do like to say is that blogging does take some time. But one thing that I want to point out is that it doesn’t have to take all of your time.

There are a few reasons why many solopreneurs put “too much” time into blogging to the point where they don’t make time for anything else.

Yes, you do have to think about delivering, and in many cases over-deliver, great quality content to your targeted audience.

Now it’s one thing when you have all the time in the world to create blog posts, but there are people like myself who have very limited of time to do this while at the same time making those efforts to grow a home business.

You may be one who works full-time and a full-time parent that don’t have a lot of time to put into your business.

Now do you have to be creative when it comes to blogging? Yes it does help, but the most important thing to think about is to be a smart blogger. You want to be smart enough to craft posts that your target audience find valuable and use the time that it takes to create them wisely.

So without further adieu, lets see why you can make blogging less time consuming by following these great ideas to get the best out of blogging!

Have A List Of Ideas Ready To Go

When it comes to conjuring up ideas I have three tools that I use

Evernote

Google

Coschedule’s Headline Analyzer

If you have a smartphone and haven’t installed the evernote app yet, then I suggest that you do this! Whenever I think of an idea, I write it down in evernote so that I don’t forget it.

As a matter of fact, I usually write down 2 or 3 ideas for posts so that I have some topics to work with for the up and coming weeks ahead. This gives me a backup plan for each week so that I can have something I can work with.

Then I turn it over to Google. Based on what I wrote down in evernote, I focus on the long tail keywords and put it in Google to see what it comes up with as far as searches and stats of the keywords.

Once I find the keyword that I want, then I turn to Coschedule’s Headline Analyzer to see what would be the most engaging headline that will draw attention to my target audience.

Break Each Post Down Into Sections

A smart way to ease up the time is to break up your blog posts in sections and go from there. One thing that I do that helps me to make blogging less time consuming is by writing out an outline before I put in the meat of the blog. The outline will include the following:

Intro

Headings/Subheadings

Lists (Bullet Points, Numbers, etc.)

Conclusion

Call To Action

Whenever I do it this way, it gives me some type of direction and order to organize my thoughts. In this manner, the blog post doesn’t come out so convoluted to my readers and keeps them focused on the topic.

I usually go in this order, but I have read on other blog posts that sometimes the bloggers will start off with the Conclusion and work their way back to the Intro. So sometimes not working in the traditional order does help you get your ideas out to beat writer’s block.

Write In Batches/Delegate Time

One thing I’m constantly practicing is writing my blog posts in batches and delegating time. Yes it does take longer as in days, but in this manner I’m able to squeeze in the time that I have

Going back to writing in Sections, I always write each part of my blog on different days. So I may do an Intro on Monday, then Subheadings on Tuesday, fill out the subheadings and list on Wednesday, draw up the conclusion on Thursday, and write my call to action on Friday for example.

With that said, I’ll allot time from 30min to an 90 minutes for each day to focus on each section depending on how busy I am. This may sound tedious to some, but the rewards from it all does pay off when you take your time with crafting engaging blogs.

Write Roundups, Guest Posts and Interviews

Sometimes we all can get what is considered “writer’s block” or just don’t have enough time to come up with great posts. But one thing you definitely want to do is to work smart.

I just realized about a little over a year ago how writing roundups, accepting guest posts, and doing interviews can amount to even more traffic based on the bloggers and other successful entrepreneurs that you bring to your blog.

I did one roundup post where I talked about 6 different blog posts that I thought would be of value to my audience and it panned out quite well. Not only did my audience share this post with their audience, but also the bloggers within the posts I mentioned shared it with their audience.

Go Here to check out the roundup post I did in early May 2015 if you’re interested. [ Tweet this! ]

Another way to work smart is to be like Ileane Smith and Sue Anne Dunlevie. What do they do? Not only do they create a lot of great content that all of us solopreneurs can use, but also they accept guest posts from different successful bloggers.

This clever strategy not only exposes these guest bloggers to their audience, but also their blogs get exposed to their guests’ audience which results in extra traffic back to their blog. So whenever you find the time, visit their blogs at Basic Blog Tips and Successful Blogging.

With that said you may also want to interview successful bloggers and entrepreneurs on your blog. I’ve listened to audios, seen videos, and read some written interviews that were quite interesting which lead to getting a lot of comments and shares.

In all just like guest posts, doing interviews is a win/win/win situation where you expose your audience to the interviewee, the interviewee gets exposed to your audience, and also you gained traffic from the interviewee’s followers when they share the interview.

Concluding How To Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

Blogging can be very time consuming unless you work smart. There are some clever ways where you can get the most out of blogging without the arduous tasks and misconceptions about writing consistent, quality blog posts which a lot of us were lead to believe.

And going back to coming up with a list of ideas, some of you still have a hard time doing this. My blogging friend Jackson Nwachukwu of WorthBlogger shared a list of 4 Tools you can use to help you with ideas in his post Looking For Blog Post Ideas? These Tools Will Help You!

But with all the ideas, tools, and helpful resources that can make your blogging journey easier, you can always make blogging less time consuming whether you have all the time in the world or if you’re on a time constraint. Blogging smarter is key to all of this!

Now It’s Your Turn!

If you’re not blogging, was timing the main reason why you’re not? Did the misconceptions I listed here aligned with what you believed about blogging? Is there any other reasons?

If you’re blogging, how often do you blog? Everyday? Every other day? Once a week? twice a month? Once a month?

Do you promote more than you blog? If so how are you promoting? How are your results?

I would definitely be honored to be a part of your first roundup post! As a matter of fact I plan on doing another one and I like for you to be a part of it too.

But yes, the length of your post matters with your time and your audience! A lot of people write under 3,000 and even more so under 1,000… for me writing between 1500 and 2500 works the best, but what’s more important is the quality!

Great advice as usual! I blog once a week and get comments every day. I like to do it that way so I can answer each comment, go to their blogs, read it, leave a good comment and share it on social media.

I only accept good comments, and not those one liners from people who try to use my blog as a back link. I do however let a one liner in here and there because I know that is a new blogger.

Evernote is my best friend. I get ideas all the time and jot them down on this. It is amazing how much information I can get to do a post just by taking a walk.

The other ideas I get to write a post is from questions people ask me. One question can lead to a pillar post lol.

As for the length, it all depends. I try not to make it too long because I know people don’t have the time to read the entire post. I do try my best to give good content that is actionable. An idea, or a method and make it simple to understand so a reader can learn and apply quickly.

I have a new blog that I started in April where I do interviews with product creators, and others in the field of marketing. Some are my affiliates, and some are not. What I aim to do with this blog is to find some great deals out there from good people and spread the news.

I won’t introduce anyone I haven’t already either purchased their product or they have given it to me to review. I’m finding that that blog is being very helpful to may people already.

It is more time for me, but it is a 15 minute interview and a few words on each post. So far so good.

Thanks for bringing up this topic Sherman. It is one thing people need to make a choice on. Blogging is a commitment and either one chooses to do it or not.

Yes I can understand about the comments. I don’t usually accept those one liners either unless it’s someone I already know. I also got into the habit of not accepting those without a gravatar.

I don’t know where I’ll be without Evernote! We might be fighting over who’s best friend is who when it comes to Evernote LOL .. but it definitely has helped me to remember those great future blog posts I plan on publishing.

Thats great that you don’t make your blog posts too long for all of us that crunch for time. You definitely give great advice on your blog posts with a spin of your great personality. This is why I’m always on your blog every week you put something out.

I like the idea that you started a blog to find great deals for all of us to and spread the news about them. We all can definitely use some great tools we can leverage to help us with our blogs and businesses.

Great article, surely blogging can be easier than most bloggers make it look like!

I agree with most of your points, regular blog posts can be around 800+ words with decent SEO – the longer 3000+ flagship content can be posted occatinally to keep the quality levels up. No point targeting every article to be that long.

I like your idea about posting once in a week, as promoting the content and doing guest blogging on other blogs matters as well. Putting in too much content on your own blog and flooding your readers do not necessarily help.

Thank you for the tools round up, will check them out now. Coschedule’s headline analyzer is on my things to do!

Yes, depending on your audience and your time, is how you would adjust the length of your blog. For me, writing over 1,000 words per post worked well as oppose to some bloggers.

For me once a week is plenty enough. Most of the other time, I’m spending the time to promote, comment, engage, and educating myself of whats out there. Although there are some successful people that blog everyday, I don’t encourage it. Especially for beginners who are just starting out.

This is a great post. I really like how you broke down the blogging misconceptions and then went on to talk about how you can save time blogging. You are absolutely correct in that you have to post in a time frame that seems right for you and your blog. Writing great, quality content is most important and it all depends on your blog.

One of the things that I really liked you talking about was that you came up with ideas well before it was time for you to write a post. This is a HUGE time saver for me. I have about 25 ideas right now and because of that I am able to write frequently. I come up with ideas, read books and other blogs to come up with ideas. It does not take much time but 10-20min a day can take you a long way. Great post!Lawrence Berry recently posted…Ways To Save Time When Marketing and Growing Your Business

Yes, there are a lot of misconceptions and sometimes many believe these misconceptions without even getting the experience for themselves. The most important thing is that you look at yourself like you would your audience as well as though tiny details that are on your stats that will help determine what to do with your future posts.

Coming up with ideas before you set out to write a blog post is huge. Especially if you’re trying to keep up with a certain schedule. You’ll already have some ideas in your arsenals and figure out a schedule to put in the time to materialize those ideas on your blog! It may sound tedious but it does work quite well!

Ever since I started blogging, I make sure I have at least one or two blog posts every week. There are many reasons why I don’t agree with the practice of having new posts every day on my blog, and I will be writing about it in the coming days.

As for promotion, I ensure I go at it using the 20/80 rule which I think is the best. As much as you may have quality content on your blog, you must promote it, if you are to attract any eyeballs. I prefer taking the course of influencer marketing, though I consider other avenues too.

I may not be a pro in this but one thing remains true. Blog when you can and promote your posts more. You will finally get there.

That’s great that you have at least one or two blog posts each week. You really don’t need any more of that if you’re promoting, but there are some that publish everyday. I look forward to reading your posts on why you believe you don’t have to publish a post everyday.

Yes, as far as promoting your blog, the 80/20 rule is one that I believe should be practice… promote 80% of the time and publish posts 20% of the time. I mainly do this through commenting which has helped a lot.

When it comes to blogging it’s really all about the readers. Yes we want to satisfy the search engines and keep up a routine, but we want to create enough value for readers to keep coming back to our blog and spread the word to generate more visitors.

Yes Visuals are quite important in the blogosphere. You definitely want to make it a point to have at least one image on each of your blog post. Also you may want to mix up your content sometimes for your readers who may like videos, audios, or other types of visuals.

Nice points Sherman! It is very time consuming for me! I also do promote more than I write. I even have help with promotions because you can never do enough.

I am definitely just starting to create content in advanced now. Took me 3 months to get to the point where I’m not rushing to finish a post because I needed to release one. That’s really a bad way…I sucked at blogging time management LOL!Dennis Seymour recently posted…Local SEO Schema and How It Helps with On-Page SEO

I can see how it can be time consuming for you. You create those long, quality posts which I do have to put aside some time for me to read some I’m crunching for time. But I tell it’s well worth it and I recommend anyone that want to brush up their SEO to read your blog posts.

But the more time consuming part of blogging are the promotions. I’ve read how you promote your blog by looking for influencers and the process does look time consuming. But I know how clever you are in doing so, and I’m about to follow the same pattern myself for a roundup post. It’s definitely worth the effort.

That’s great that you’re creating content in advance! It is a great time savor so that you don’t have to stress yourself out on putting out new content in a rush. This shows that you’re not sucking at blogging time management now 😉

You keep getting better each time with your posts..way to go! (I mean it:) )

Yes, these misconceptions do exist and I am glad you mentioned them here. I’ve seen bloggers publish daily posts, and some even have 2-3 posts a day! I really wonder who writes for them, as they couldn’t possible be human writing it all on their own…lol…and even if they do, I wonder if they have time for commenting or promotion. I’ve never posted more than twice a week, even when I started off, and would not go beyond thrice a week, IF at all. You need time for comments and blog promotion, which one cannot do otherwise.

True. You don’t need to always write long, though having a combination of short and long posts, interviews, etc is good. I’m trying to reduce my length to 2000 odd words now….and may still reduce it further, as all those on Mobiles would prefer that, and Google’s already told us to make our blogs mobile friendly.

While SEO always helps, I’ve seen a few of my posts do well even without it, so a lot depends on the content that we write, as any long tail keyword can rank too!

Nice tips to make blogging less time consuming, though the process does take time if you write a well researched post and have them up twice a week, which happens with most of our posts!

Yes, guest posts are always a time saver, and as you already know, we have the Aha!NOW gates open for all bloggers and non-bloggers now, so more the merrier, and that gives us time for promotion too.

Breaking the posts down to sections always works, though I hardly get time to write in batches because of 2 posts a week, though take 2 days to come up with a complete post, including images and the rest of the things. Promotion always helps, as it helps reach the masses, and we spend a lot of time promoting the posts, whether our or our guests. Nothing could be better 🙂

We both agree that those that write 2-3 posts a day are beyond this world. It’s hard enough just to write one good post a week, but to write 2-3 a day goes way beyond me. I don’t know how they find the time to promote and comment since just doing these two takes a lot of time in and of itself.

Yes there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to blogging. Those 4 are the ones I’ve heard the most. As far as the length go, I say mix it up, but you don’t have to write those really long posts all the time. For me, writing at least 1500 words helped break the threshold I was in for a long time. Sometimes it’s those little details that help.

SEO definitely helps, but you don’t have to use it all the time. You can just use long tail keywords to rank well for the search engines.

Although these are great tips to make blogging less time consuming, to create quality blog posts does take time. You just have to figure out a way to work smarter than doing the tedious things to work harder.

Accepting guests posts are a great way to work smarter. It’s definitely a time saver and I can see how it would be a time saver for you with the Aha!NOW community. This was definitely a smart move for you and Vinay!

If you’re writing two times a week, I can see how breaking your posts down in batches can be a challenge. But one thing is for sure and that is you and Vinay do craft excellent, quality posts for all of us. I have learned a lot throughout the 2 years I’ve known you!

Great advice indeed! The key is to putting each golden nugget of wisdom into action.

Yes blogging can be very time consuming and I am happy to see that you have cleared up some of the misconceptions out there. I am at the moment streamlining the blogs I follow and who I receive information from. If one is not careful s/he can be drawn all over the place and then it get confusing.

When I started blogging at first, I read about posting every day. Then later on I read at least 3 times per week and then weekly, forth nightly and even monthly. I think t the end of the day it is what works best for the individual. There is no one size fits all when it comes to the frequency a post is published.

First when I started I followed the daily – that was wearing me out thin! Now, I write and publish blog posts 2-3 times weekly. So far it’s been working out.

Thanks for sharing the tools such as Evernote, Google and Coschedule’s Headline Analyzer. I just tried out the latter and was amazed at the results. It was an aha moment for me.

I can see how the structure for your blog post can make one’s blogging life a lot less time consuming. Again great suggestions which I would implement.

Yes, blogging can be very time consuming, that is if you’re not clever with it. There are some misconceptions when it comes to blogging, and quite frankly, not all of what you heard from different gurus are true. I forgot to mention at one point I did try to write everyday, that is 5 days a week and it was wearing me out thin as well LOL

Then I did every other day, which I got me some traffic, but the quality just wasn’t there. So the one thing that I advice people is to put more quality and make sure the context within the content is of value to your audience. You want to have a schedule that works out for you and your audience.

That’s great that 2 to 3 times weekly works out for you! It sounds like you found your routine!

Yes, as Donna Merrill said, Evernote is my best friend! I never leave home with out it 😉 Also the use of Google and Coschedule works out great for me when coming up with engaging headlines for future blog posts! I’m glad that you found coschedule valuable!

Yes, blogging can be very time consuming. I do use some of your methods today, but I don’t break each post down into sections. I more or less just write without thinking much about structure. I believe it takes more time.

I add ideas to Evernote, and I write in batches and publish two days a week. So everything works great, but I’ll be testing your advice about sections, it seems to be just what I need.

It sounds like you’re right on track with your blogging. Yes it can be time consuming, but to make it less time consuming you want to blog smart. Breaking it down in sections has helped me since I don’t have a lot of time!

Thanks for writing such a great post. I tend to write post somewhat shorter than this but there are exceptions to that rule.

You have shared some great ideas on blogging, especially breaking them down into sections.

I agree that you do have to be consistent (a problem I am working on) as I have seen a drop in my visitors and comments since I let myself get sidetracked. Posting at least once a week I would say is mandatory in my opinion.

Great article Sherman
I liked the idea of doing batches of blog posts.
Right now with 3 blogs I do one post each a week, but
separately as I have time. Much better to schedule time and
get all three done at once. Thanks for your tips.

Hey Sherman
This was a really great post. Lack of time to blog certainly is not an issue for me, and I tend to work off inspiration and just go from there, allowing me to finish posts in maybe an hour to 90 minutes. I tend to write longer content as well..usually around 2,000 to 2500 words.

My experience with SEO has been interesting in that I never really gave it a thought. But one day I was playing around with various key words related to LOa in Google and for some, one or more of my posts was coming up on the first page, sometimes the first result. That was pretty cool.

I must say that since I have started podcasting, it is really tempting to do just those…hit record and just talk. So easy and fast! But I do enjoy my written posts as well.

It’s great that you have a lot more time to focus on your posts and it sounds like writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words is your sweet spot! You can’t go wrong with that.

Yes, SEO is quite interesting. It’s not necessary all the time, but when you get the right keywords, it’s amazing how you rank on Google and other search engines. Especially with LOA since it’s a popular topic!

I didn’t know you had a podcast and I’m sure it’s a lot more easy than writing blog posts. I’ve only done videos other than writing posts, and just doing 2 minute ones sometimes suffice!

It’s all about good planning. There’s a lot of solopreneurs out there that work full time jobs and raising families. But although they have a hectic schedule there’s always room to add blogging to their marketing plan and it’s their advantage to do so.

No words to describe the quality of your article, excellent article to read.
All the points mentioned are the best one to read, when you mention about the size of the article I nowhere go more than 600-700, I am not planning to write something more than 1000 henceforth. very nice tips.

It’s a wonder why I can relate to your post so well 😉 . And I’m sure that I’m not the only one that can

I think the best way to relate to your audience is to think about real life experiences and put it down into your blog. For some, it makes the time go faster, while others it may take a while.

And from the looks of it, writing between 2500 and 3500 words is your sweet spot. You come alive and put in a lot of quality when it comes to these numbers.

But it all stems from knowing what business you’re “really” in. That’s the most vital part about leverage a blog. It’s knowing who you’re writing for and writing relative articles to them.

And if you want to improve, you definitely have to stick with it. See where you need improvements and make those necessary changes. It will be time consuming at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’ll become a breeze!

Full marks to this line -“Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have”.

I have gone through your article and i will share my experience with you. I am also using Evernote to note down any idea for my future post. Whenever i get any free time i used to read the post from other blogger like you and trust me that give me idea for my next post and that saves lot of time to find good subject for post. I am tech lover so i used to read new tech releases usually. I am also using Google keyword to find good keyword for my post which is one of the necessary step for traffic generation from search engine.

Also i have created template for my post like Subject, Description, prons-cons, How-to-guide and review which gives me the idea about necessary content which need to explore.

I never thought about creating a template for different subjects! That’s a great idea.

You can always come across great ideas from different posts. It’s a good idea to write down whatever you come across or think of down in Evernote. I have a tendency to forget, so tools like evernote is a life savor.

Google keyword planner, or just using google itself is a great way to come up with good long tail keywords. Most people use Google for their searches so it’s common sense to get your keywords from them.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and tips on this subject. Its an interesting concept to make blogging less time consuming. But then if we apply 80-20 rule, blogging is 20% and promotion is 80%, both our blogging and promoting time will decrease proportionally.

I collect ideas as I go along using Evernote and Pocket, and generally use these as reference points when I write my blog post. I’m usually posting once a week, but occasionally I’ll skip a week if I’m not ready to post. Its better to focus on quality rather than quantity.

Just recently I’ve had a Guest post followed by an Expert Roundup post. You’d think there was less work. But in reality there is a lot of work behind the scenes organising input and then formatting the output. So we shouldn’t be fooled into thinking its less time consuming!

When it comes to working smarter on your blog, the 80/20 rule does apply quite well. There are the misconceptions that turn people off which is why I had to dispel them.

Blogging does take time, but also it doesn’t have to take over your life either. We all want to put out quality posts that our audience and their connection can use, but you want to work out a schedule that works for you and your audience which is what you mentioned. That’s great that you thought of your audience before publishing your post. This will benefit in the long run.

I’ve only done one Roundup post which didn’t take me a long time. But as you already know, I’m going todo an expert roundup post which I already started put together. So I will see how this goes!

This post came handy! Few days back I was brainstorming on possible ways to make my blogging time less and that led me to writing a post recently on tools to help come up with blog post ideas.

The truth is blogging is far way time consuming and takes passion and dedication to stay on it at all time. I have had cases when even checking up my own blog became tasking. Sometimes only the thought of writing a post makes me think a lot because I know how long it will take and the processes invlove to write a good content that will be epic.

Yes, I enjoy reading long posts and that is also applicable to my own posts. 1500 to 3000 and above is okay by me!

Thanks so much for the mention Sherman. I really do appreciate my friend.

I really like the tools you mentioned in they do come in handy. Especially when you just can’t think anything great to write about that your audience can take value from.

Yes blogging can be quite time consuming, but it doesn’t have to take over your life. You do have to be on it if you want to be successful which is why it’s very important to blog smarter by doing less of the tedious work.

As I mentioned in the post, for me it takes about a week to publish a blog post which may not seem like I’m doing a lot, but I do want to be of quality and relative to the audience I have.

I’m glad that you like the post and I definitely made sure I added your post! I know it would help my audience! Thanks for stopping by!Sherman Smith recently posted…How To Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

I agree with everything you are saying here. There are a lot of misconceptions in the blogging world.

You pointed out the most common ones here. One of the biggest misconceptions, i would say, is the answer to the question ‘how often should you publish a blog post?’ … in order to build a successful blog online.

Some would say daily, others would say weekly, and others would say once or twice a month. A lot of people get all these different advice and tend to get lost!

The truth is, there is no specific answer to this question – because it all really depends on your time and skill-sets. What new bloggers need to understand very well – is the Marketing part of the entire process, instead.

You have to market a lot more than you publish blog posts. Knowing this – THEN you can come up with your own publishing schedule accordingly. Come up with a publishing schedule around your marketing plan (not the other way around).

In my opinion, the marketing part has to come before the publishing part.

Yes, you do need to publish very valuable, unique, and epic content – and that really helps tremendously. But, what will help you a lot more, is a lot more marketing for the blog.

I have seen blogs with very low quality content, get way more traffic than blogs with high quality content. And that is because one is marketing a lot more than the other one (regardless of the content quality).

When you see this, it makes you think. You can see that the marketing part is the number one key to build a successful blog online. Now, if you combine very high quality blog posts WITH a lot of marketing – there is no doubt you will have massive massive success online thanks to your blog!

You have shared great tips to make blogging less time consuming, so you can focus more on what is way more important – and that, to me, would be the marketing part.

I remember when I first started blogging I was first started to publish a post 3 times a week, then someone else said to publish one everyday. At the time as a newbie I thought to myself, how am I going to come up with a topic every single day. That was crazy, but I tried it and failed miserably LOL

Marketing is vital part of the whole process!

Why?

Well as my blogging friend Don Purdue says, it shows how competent you are. In order to even consider building the know, like and trust factor, you must first show how competent you are.

With that said, as a result you brand yourself and you start to build genuine relationships.

When you have advocates that have your back and recommend what you promote to others, then that’s when the magic really start to happen. Especially when they come to your blog to get more detail about who you are and what you promote.

It then makes the sales process go a lot more smoother if you’re selling anything and also building your list of subscribers become a lot easier which is what I’m experiencing right now.

The misconceptions you stated hit the nail on the head. Everyone seems to be going on about how you should write frequently, how you should crank out 5000-words posts, how you should write about something completely new if you want to generate buzz and build a successful blog.

In my experience, most of these statements are just ideals and everyone’s blog is unique and different just as each individual is unique and different. Personally, I have observed that producing more content did not ramp up the traction or engagement levels on my blog. Far from it.

And I don’t always do 3000+ words, unless I have something really important to say. Filling up your article with fluff just so it can be 3000 words insults your reader’s intelligence and the end result of that might not be good for your blog.

So what do I do?

I blog mostly twice a week. Many times I default to once a week. Then I try to promote the content I just wrote. What many bloggers have come to realize is that it is better to spend 20% of your time writing content, then spend 80% promoting what you just wrote.

The length of my article is always determined by the message I am trying to pass across. If it can be delivered in 10 words, then why not? If it has to be delivered in 3000+ then no problem. My rule is to cut out the fluff always.

I promote my articles on social media and on blogging communities. This can be very time-consuming but I have learnt to do it in batches, at delegated times, so its not too overwhelming.

These misconceptions got me for the first couple of years of blogging. Then just a couple of years ago, I started to notice that it didn’t make a big difference. At least as far as blogging every other day. The key is working smarter and providing quality and value.

Yes, you don’t have to write the 3000+ word blog posts all the time either as you found out. You can also product 2 or maybe even 3 blogs from 3000+ word blog posts that you can turn into a series or something else and get the same results if not better from them.

I see that you apply the 80/20 rule which is very true. Most of the time I spend on promoting my blog posts more so than publish them. I usually do this through commenting besides sharing them on social media and blogging communities. Also some of my readers and visitors share my posts too which is great.

I think it’s wise of you to let the message you’re trying to convey to determine the length of your blog posts. It’s great and also smart to do these types of blogs into batches if they become too long. It’s much easier this way and you stay focus on one point at a time.

It is very difficult for peoples like me to consume less time in blogging because I always want to work and more on my blogs so that I can provide my readers with unique quality articles.Now after reading your article, I found that we can save lot of time by doing simple things.

Working smart can definitely save you time. I know the feeling of wanting to do more but yet you don’t have enough time, but one thing I do is write what I want to do in evernote before I forget the next time I have free time. I’m glad that you found the post valuable Param. Take Care!Sherman Smith recently posted…How To Make Blogging Less Time Consuming

Thank you for writing another great post! I love the quote by John Maxwell about time, too.

I totally agree with you that “Quality and value directed towards your target market is key.”

I use Evernote, Google, and Coschedule’s Headline Analyzer, too. They are great tools for conjuring up ideas. I love your advice on breaking each blog post down into sections. This is golden!

My goal is to blog once a week. You are so right. Blogging can be very time consuming unless you work smart. One thing that I have found to be helpful is to eliminate distractions like closing my email program and turning off my cell phone so that I can focus. Like Donna, I also use questions that people ask me.

Numbers will get you more posts and may get you noticed by search engines with all of your updates to your blog, but quality and value will get you noticed much more by not only the search engines but also your audience.

Those 3 tools has made a positive difference in my posts. It makes your posts more attractive and engaging when your audience happen to run across it.

But yes, blogging can be quite time consuming unless you work smart. I just scratched the surface of what you can do. But yes, eliminating distractions matter a lot. I read that the average person in corporate America wastes an hour a day because of distractions. Can you imagine that? Imagine how much more productive work that can get done.

Boy oh boy Sherman did this hit home for me. 🙂 This is exactly my problem at this time. Just finding time to blog. With life changes, new baby in the house where I have to babysit as my daughter works nights, working a full time job, traveling, working and trying to get a little bit of a life in between has been incredibly time consuming. If I had to give up something, in my mind, it’s usually blogging which really isn’t an option. It’s just that there is not enough time.

I was always told that I needed to blog daily. Found out quickly that that was not an option. I was also told I needed SEO. That I do sometimes and at other times not. Depends on what I feel the need to write about. I think the topic is more important and if you happen to add some SEO, i.e. focus on your keywords and such in there, then all the better. But I do focus on some of the time saving techniques you mention here.

I always have a list of things to write about although I usually change my mind once I get started LOL! Still works though to get something started. I do break my sections up for easy reading and I try to delegate time (at least I have a schedule that I try to stick to). What I don’t do is guest posts and I think I need to do more of that. Probably monthly.

Anyway, great tips. I always find your info thought provoking if I’m not on track and get valuable information each time I visit your posts.

I know you’re in a crunch for time. I can get busy with work and the drive, but I remember you telling me partial of your daily schedule. I definitely feel for you but I know anything is possible. There are a tremendous ways to save time. There are a few bloggers that we know that actually stopped blogging every week and started blogging twice a month so they can focus on other things within their business and daily lives. I’ve also heard of other bloggers that did 3 guest posts and got a swarm of subscribers from it. So when it comes down to it, it’s all about working smarter.

Yes, I do believe SEO would be great to supplement your marketing strategy, but the main focus is connecting with other genuine bloggers. There’s a lot of bloggers that don’t even implement SEO at all and they’re still getting a lot of traffic and subscribers, so that goes to show that you don’t have to implement it on each and every blog post.

Having a list of topics for future posts is definitely a wise thing to do. When I first started blogging, sometimes I would end up just staring into the screen for 15min, then I go to Facebook, then back to the screen, then check email, then back to the screen and so on LOL. But although you change your mind about the topics you have 😉 at least you have them.

First off, that ridiculous advice of publishing a post each day. I think that it’s really not a good advice at all as it could actually burn people out and after 3 weeks of this, and they’d probably want to quit, especially if they are not crazy about writing.

Those who promote the concept of writing 3,000+ word articles are not really thinking straight, because we KNOW that 95% of those people who will land on that post will NOT read the entire thing, so I think that it’s wiser to write 2 or 3 blog posts instead, and people will benefit better from it.

I’m like you, while I take care of using SEO, it’s not all there is. Here is an example:
Do you know what’s my MOST search article/keyword?

“French Dessert Recipes.” Yes, that was a keyword on my travel/food section and it keeps being the most searched keyword to this day all the way to many foreign countries.

With all the misconceptions that’s put other there, sometimes I think they’re part of a conspiracy to keep the majority at the bottom while the minority stays at the top. Some people can put out a post everyday, but from what I’ve been seeing the majority won’t.

With the 3000+ word articles, you can do this sometimes. Especially if you feel it’ll be more valuable to your audience. But one thing I wanted to get across is that you don’t have to write long posts each and every time. Especially for those that have very little time to read but yet want to be successful. As you said, most readers won’t read the entire post. They’ll go to the point that most interest them.

That’s great that you have a keyword that’s searched the most, but this keyword doesn’t apply to your personal development section or your writing/blogging section. So yes, SEO is great when it applies to what you’re conveying, but other than that, we all need to be focusing connecting, building rapport and giving each other support.

I love the quote that you used “priority management” not time management.

Blogging can eat up a lot of time, but you hit the nail on the head when you talked about organizing your approach. Framing out each post with the structure, blocking writing time into your weekly schedule, and using technology to capture ideas are all great strategies for reducing blogging time while continuing to create great content.

John C. Maxwell knew what he was talking about when he brought up priority management which is really what it is.

But yes, blogging can take up a lot of time if you’re not working smart. You definitely want to take advantage of the available tools that’s right at your clutches and prioritize the tasks so you can be on schedule with your blog posts. The strategy I do and has helped me a lot is breaking each post into section and writing in batches each day.

What I find intriguing is that you’re writing the one post a week trying to get to 3,000 words. From my perspective, even if you’re cutting down time everywhere else, that’s still got to be taking up a lot of your time.

My theory is, and always has been, that people should write whatever they want to write, even if they’re writing towards a niche, and when they’re done then stop. I put out a video the other day where I said that most people (not you of course lol) trying to write long posts aren’t equipped to do it, which is why I read so many lousy long posts.

Remember kids in school who used to have to write 2,500 word papers? Most of them barely could even push through in getting a C because they’d run out of things to say too soon and would start repeating themselves. I always felt bad for the teachers that had to read that mess.

Having said that, I agree with you on Evernote. Another trick I sometimes do is, if I’m at my computer I’ll act like I’m starting a post, either put in a title or type an idea in and save it as a draft to get back to later. It always comes down to capturing ideas to write about when they come to you.

Finally, the SEO part. I have to admit that I never write with SEO in mind. I think that comes from writing most of my life, first TV scripts (I was a strange kid lol) then poems, then journals, then music and lyrics, then stories, then my first book, and now lots and lots of blogs. I have nearly 5,000 articles online and in regular magazines. I’d best be getting paid really REALLY well if I took a week to write a post, then had to find images and THEN do SEO; frankly I think I’d faint! lol I figure if the search engines can’t figure out what I’m talking about via what I consider natural writing then I shouldn’t be writing in the first place.

I’ve actually written a couple of post over 3,000 words which was surprising for me at the time. I’m a man of small words, and to do this was a great feat for me LOL.. but I try to just stay between 1500 and 2500. Yes it does take time but breaking it down into section and focusing on one section per day really helps.

I agree that there are a lot of not so great long post. And I do admit to this, as I commented on your last post, I will skip to a point that’s most intriguing, resulting not getting the full scope of the post.

Hey Mitch, I was one of those kids that couldn’t write a 2500 word paper LOL Yes it was quite tough and I barely passed my English and History classes with a C. I use to hate those classes but we all needed them to graduate and now I’m breaking all the rules I learned in English although I have been writing those 2500 word blog posts.

I actually do the trick you’re referring to as well outside of Evernote. As always, I’ll get more ideas later on that day or within the week. I’ve actually gotten some great ideas from dreaming and I thought only musicians did that. I guess it applies to everyone.

I’m a big advocate of SEO, but I do have to say you don’t have to use it all the time. It seems like I learn something new about you each time you comment. You played classical piano and now you tell me you wrote TV scripts as a kid as well as poems, journals and lyrics to music. You’re what they call a true renaissance man and I’m glad to have you in my circle. But yes, with the formatting, finding images, and SEO you definitely have to spend a little more time on this. This is the “behind the scenes” of blogging that non bloggers don’t see.

From the beginning I’ve only blogged once every other week. I did this because I didn’t want to put too much stress on myself starting out.

Then I heard things about the 80/20 rule and decided to stick with the schedule. That way I could explore more ways to promote without being pressed for time.

Blogging everyday or a number of times a week is probably good if you already have a strong following at write on a variety topics that spark different interests.

To try to make blogging less time consuming when I have problem coming up with the parts of a post I’ll put it to the side and brainstorm things while running errands or something. That way I’m not just sitting there staring at a blank screen, watching the minutes tick by.

Blogging once every other week is a great way to start. It can be quite stressful at first when you’re blogging. You run into a lot of noise of the “perfect” way to blog when there is not perfect way. There’s just different ways to get results.

You can’t beat the 80/20 rule! It a wise way to work smart and gain even more out of it then just working really hard.

The fact that you do errands and other things will help you come up with ideas. I’ve read that there’s a chemical within us called dopamine that aids in our brainstorming and coming up with different ideas, and doing some type of action, like running errands, will help. But I think it’s even more helpful to write it down. I have a tendency to forget by the time I sit down to write.

Love what you shared here, awesome content! Absolutely love that quote by John C. Maxwell, that’s so very true. I’d never thought of that before, but it’s so relevant; he makes a great point!

Yes, in the beginning . . . 4.5 years ago, I was taught to publish new content each day so that the search engines would get used to crawling my site. That is no longer relevant today. I usually publish about once per week, and lately it’s been a little bit longer.

You’re absolutely right. People think they have to reinvent the wheel, but it’s all about adding additional value and putting things forward from your own perspective.

You don’t have to use SEO on every single pos1t, but if you want the best results, you will… I’m convinced more of this than before since I had Dennis share that guest article on my site. My eyes were completely opened.

I’ve seen the stats that say 2000, 3000 word posts are best because they rank better… I do not prefer a 6000- word, or 7000- word blog post. That should be reserved for an eBook, in my opinion.

Awesome, I try to keep a list of things I want to write about, and it’s helpful – that’s a great tip.

Formatting is really key, and breaking it into sections is a good way to get the reader to move down and finish the article. Wonderful suggestions! I’m the first one to hit the back button if I find a bunch of text with nothing to break it up. LOL

I’ll be publishing my first expert Roundup soon, and I’m excited.

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful article, I’ll be getting the word out…

I thought the John Maxwell quote would go perfect with the topic. He really brought out a great quote which changed the perception of managing our time better.

Blogging everday was a big challenge for everyone back then. I don’t see how people did then, and there’s still people doing it now. I know that Ray Higdon is blogging just about everyday. All I have to say is more power to them. It’s not relevant now with all the changes search engines made.

You definitely don’t have to reinvent the wheel. A lot of the content is already out there and you can definitely put them in your own perspective. This is a great way to project to your audience on how you think.

Yes, I’m a big advocate of using SEO, but it’s not a requirement for every blog post. That’s great that Dennis opened your eyes to it and he has pointed me out to many other aspects of it that I wasn’t aware of.

As far as word length for each blog, I have been keeping it, or at least trying to keep it in between 1500 and 2500 words. The reason being is that because it has helped me break 850 visitors/month which I’ve had for the longest time. But just like with SEO it isn’t a big requirement to have really long post although it looks great to search engines. I agree the the longer 6000+ word post should be saved for an ebook.

Keeping a list of your future blog posts does save a lot of time. I hate just staring at my screen trying to think of a great topic for my next post. Sometimes I waste a day doing this LOL

Formatting is really important when it comes to blogging. You want your readers to come back, and formatting makes it easier for them to read and to scan. But that’s funny that you hit the back button if it’s nothing but text LOL… I feel your pain LOL

Roundups are really cool to do! I can’t wait for to read it! Keep me posted!

I found your excellent post from Donna’s blog, and it’s really helped me, because I DO need plenty of ideas to make blogging less time-consuming.

I started my blogging career posting daily, but soon put a stop to that when I learned that there were other tasks than just writing. After 90 days of daily blogging I was exhausted and still not seeing more than a handful of visitors – because of course it left me no time to promote the posts. Now I aim for a weekly post, but family problems have cut that down lately.

If I wanted to say something for 3,000 words I’d split it into 3 posts and link them together as a series.

I can see the title generator being a real help to me, because I struggle with titles and I hadn’t tried Evernote on my phone. So thanks for those suggestions.

Yea I think is crazy now to publish a blog daily, but some people are able to do it with success. I say more power to them. But I can imagine how exhausted you were after posting each day for 90 days. I was exhausted after a week LOL But that’s great that you started to post weekly. You have to do what works best for you and for many they utilize the 80/20 Rule where 20% of your time is publish blog posts and 80% of your time is promoting them.

Yes 3,000 word posts is a lot, but I admit that I’ve written a couple of them. Yes it was pretty time consuming but I was just like the energizer rabbit. I just kept going and going and going LOL…but I try to keep it between 1500 and 2500 words.

Yes the generator sounds like a good tool. I haven’t used it personally but that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future.

Your tips on making blogging less time consuming are quite apt and truly amazing…being someone who also has a lot of online work to do aside blogging, I have learnt to adopt a few, particularly blogging and writing in small batches.

In terms of promotion, I use basically blog commenting, social media and guest blogging. So far, the results have been amazing!

Yes the daily for most of us bloggers can be overkill. I use to blog 3 times a week but I cut it down to just once a week.

aaahhh, Evernote, I can’t live without it! It definitely helps with jotting down with great ideas as well as other things.

Coschedule’s Headline Analyzer is one tool that should not be overlooked. I had problems coming up with great headlines, but I’m not a natural at it. Tools like this help, but I like the fact that it tells you what areas you need to improve with your headline.

Brilliant tips on how to do blogging with less time consuming. This is very innovative post. Once you work with an routine while blogging you can save your time. Top blogger are always maintain their schedule that’s the main reason i believe they are on top. I only concern on routine work to develop faster on blogging.

I’m glad you liked the post and found it innovative. Yes you’ll find that the top bloggers keep a steady routine when it comes to publishing their posts. I for one make an effort to publish once a week, but I don’t have any particular day which I find isn’t necessary. But starting to work smart like the tips here does help out a lot.

Hi Sherman. Thanks for this interesting post. There a lot of misconceptions out there which may stop people from even starting. I agree that you have to work out a schedule which suits yourself. deending on one’s lifestyle, depends on how much content they can offer. As long as one is consistent (which I haven’t been for a while now…but am getting back on track) and puts out useful information, then once a week/fortnight is fine.
Thanks for a great read.
Liz

There are plenty of misconceptions out there, and these are the most popular ones from my perception.

You definitely have to work out a schedule that fits yours as well that suitable for your audience. The key is consistency, and if you’re consistent with your blog posts, then this shows how competent and trustworthy you are. This can go a long way!

I wanted to be sure to get by here and read this post and so glad I did. Love these misconceptions you’ve pointed out and how to resolve some of those issues.

I think we all have to find what works best for us and that can only happen through trial and error. I use to religiously post three times a week and I did really well. Then I backed down to twice and now it’s once and I haven’t lost traffic or comments due to it either.

I know a few people who are proud that they write really really really long posts but my issue is I don’t have time to read them. If they can keep me entertained with every word then I might consider it but I’ve yet to read one that has. People have to remember that it’s quality versus quantity and that means lots and lots of words.

Love your tips and although I do sit down at one sitting and write my post I will try in the future to change things up. I’ve never really had a particular plan or schedule for this because usually once I know what my topic is the post just seems to flow. Editing it, loading it up on my blog, finding an image, etc, all of that is time consuming but very necessary.

I do hope that people will take your advice though because blogging is so worth the time.

These are the misconceptions that I believed myself. I’ve tried all of them and come to find out, the way I’m blogging now I’m gaining more than when I was consistently applying those strategies (instead of the 3000+ word blog one)

We definitely have to find what works best for us. What may work for one person may not work for someone else. There’s so many different factors of why that is, but what’s more important is that you can find a great strategy that fits you and your audience. I remember when you were posting twice a week and now you’re doing it once and still getting the results you want. It seems like you’re getting better results now than before from my observation of comments you get.

On some long post I can put it the time, but it’s quite rare for me to do so since I don’t have time either. But you’re right it’s all about the quality of the post instead of the quantity!

That’s great that you’re able to sit at one sitting to write your blog post and it can just flow from a topic you thought of. You are definitely a natural when it comes to writing great post. But yes the other steps like editing, finding images, correcting spelling and grammar, etc. are the most time consuming parts of the writing a blog, but very necessary.

But yes, as far as branding yourself well and getting the search engines attention, blogging is well worth it, and the trust factor is preferred through blogging than any other type of media.

I think it’s smart for you to write notes on all of those different topics like copywriting, proofreading, and so on…

But yes, I remember reading your post a while ago, and I really like what you had to say. I was looking forward to another one soon, but
you write your posts much later. Nothing wrong with that as i mentioned in this post. You have to do what works best for you and your
audience.

Late to the party but I eventually made it in here. This was a great post and so many really key points that you made.

One of the things you said that was a misconception was, “You have to come up with new content each time.” Very true. You DON’T necessarily have to do that. But putting your own twist on it or coming at it from a different angle is always better to do.

Your ways to make it less time consuming is on point as well. I frequently write my blog posts in batches … sometimes working on 3 different blog posts in a day. Now, I may not finish all of them, but I have the general consensus and by the time I get back to it, I save time because it’s halfway done.

Yes, you don’t have to come up with a new post each and every time. Everyone has the ability to add their own twist to an already published topic, and with that said, your version may appeal more and be more comprehensible to a specific market of people which makes it all the better.

And if you don’t have a lot of time, writing in batches works like wonders. You’re sometimes working on 3 different blogs in a day and that my friend can definitely save time as tedious as it may sound. But you’ve already have your ideas out there and all you have to do is finish them and even put them on a schedule so that you can start on others.

I wish I was as organised as you Sherman!
I now have 6 blogs ( how did that happen?) and finding time for all of them is just impossible. I’m about to start outsourcing some social media work to VAs ( I’m also working as a VA myself, at a higher rate). I like your idea of batching posts. It’s interesting that when I’m working for someone else at an hourly rate, I really focus and do my best posssible job within the hour, but when I’m working for myself, attention wanders, I make a coffee, maybe start reading other blogs….there’s your problem!

Wow 6 blogs. I have to give you much respect for having 6 blogs and for me this would be impossible, but at the same time it isn’t. Where there’s a will, there’s a way and if you’re serious about all 6 of them, I’m sure you’ll take advantage of the options you have to manage them.

It’s funny that you say that you put your best foot forward when it comes to your clients, but when it comes to your own blog your attention wanders. I think this happens to the best of us. At least for me with guest posts and doing my IT work. For me I think I tend to steer off of the main purpose of what I’m doing for myself as far as blogging or growing a home business.

First time here on your blog. I know this is a post you had wrote back in June, but the headline caught my attention. Great information here. I like how you break down when you write each section and how much time you dedicate to each.

I usually get up at 4:00 a.m. and dedicate about an hour to writing and spend another hour commenting on other blogs and promoting my content via social media. I must say it is not always hard and fast as my 17 month old son wakes up during that time and I have to take care of him while getting all of this done. Keeps things interesting for sure.

The key is to make the time when you have it, commit to it, and or give something up to in order to make the time i.e. watching television, exercise, etc.

I only post once a week on Fridays and it gives me sufficient time to research and write my post. The length of my post is usually around 2,000 to 2,300 words for obvious SEO reasons, but more importantly I go in-depth and provide screenshots and image(s) to help illustrate what I am talking about. Also, instead of saying something to the effect of write an email to build a relationship with your subscribers. I actually give you an example of what that means so you know how to do it. Further I tell stories which people like and can relate to that keeps them engaged, thus continuing to read your content.

I can only imagine the challenge of doing this while raising a 17month old. But I see that you have a great routine going for yourself in order to accomplish your daily tasks.

Breaking it up like this makes it a lot easier and convenient for you. Some say writing that many words doesn’t matter too much but in my case it did give my blog a little boost compared to previous years. But I have heard of those who write less than 1,000 words get great ranking and traffic, but usually they happen to be niche blogs.

That’s great that you go into detail about the advice you give. I’ve read a lot of blogs that were pretty generic and you can see that they’re just regurgitating what someone else wrote. If you’re a beginner, I believe this is ok, but if you’ve been blogging for a couple of years, then it’s time to put your own flavor into your blog posts which I see you already do.

Hey Sherman, Great article, surely blogging can be easier than most bloggers make it look like! I agree with most of your points, regular blog posts can be around 800+ words with decent SEO – the longer 3000+ flagship content can be posted occasionally to keep the quality levels up. No point targeting every article to be that long.

You definitely don’t have to stress yourself by publish 3000+ blogs every week or day. Most people don’t have that kind of time. But these tips helped me when I was publishing weekly blog posts and I’ve gain much more traffic as well as met some other amazing bloggers.

These are great tips! What I do when I have an idea for a new blog post is create a new draft post immediately. I write down a few bullet points of what I want to talk about and the conclusion + a temporary title. It makes the rest easier. When I have a moment, I just pick a draft post I started and work on it. I already laid out the structure so the writing part is much faster. 🙂

Awesome exhortation for sure! The key is to putting each brilliant chunk of intelligence energetically. Yes blogging can be extremely tedious and I am upbeat to see that you have cleared up a portion of the confusions out there. I am right now streamlining the web journals I take after and who I get data from. On the off chance that one is not cautious s/he can be drawn everywhere and afterward it get confounding. When I began blogging at in the first place, I read about posting each day. At that point later on I read no less than 3 times each week and afterward week after week, forward daily and even month to month. I think t the finish of the day it is the thing that works best for the person. There is nobody estimate fits all with regards to the recurrence a post is distributed.

You’re absolutely right. You have to figure out a schedule that works for you. It’s not always beneficial to force yourself on a routine that’s going to result in less quality wither it be publishing blog posts or leaving comments. Sometimes doing less can reap better results which I have noticed myself.